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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Denver, Colorado, United States

Pages: 162 - 169

Year of Publication: 1995

ISBN:0-201-84705-1

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John Karat	IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, 30 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, NY
Tom Dayton	Bellcore, 444 Hoes Lane, RRC 4A-1112, Piscataway, NJ

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. New York, NY, USA

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